re: Hilarious article about Aggy

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Please, tell us more about how our traditions(some of which are older than your school itself), are manufactured.

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12th man

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donned the uniform of injured player Heine Weir and stood on the sidelines to await his turn. Although he did not actually play in the game, his readiness to play symbolized the willingness of all Aggies to support their team

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Cool so yall tried to cheat. Instead of hiding from the world that aggy are terrible cheaters, lets remember forever that time that we broke the rules (yall so naughty) to remind bertha in section 12 how much she should care about the game.

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bonfire

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we really hate texas. it burns in our loins. we should personify that hatred and set a bunch of trees on fire. tradition.

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rings

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wear this ring forever aggy bro. its proof positive that at one point you had to interact with another human being.

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Yells

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Everyone yells. Aggy decided that yelling was too hard for the average student and keeping with the ritualistic destruction of fun embedded in aggy history yall had to set times so that the student body could practice these yells at nothing like complete maniacs.

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elephant walk

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hey one day some students were walking around campus looking at shite. what a killer idea. let's make everyone do that forever.

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asking for luck

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some old guy might've tutored some people so lets build a statue of him and throw pennies at it. that'll be rad and totally helpful.

All of this:

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Privileged words For much of its first 100 years, Texas A&M was a small, all-male, military academy. The school became coeducational in the 1960s, and membership in the Corps of Cadets became voluntary. In military tradition, privileges are meted out as one climbs the ranks, and Texas A&M has several such traditions. The most obvious are the uniforms worn by the Corps of Cadets. Corps members wear different uniforms for each year, culminating in the prized Senior boots.[66] Vocabulary is also restricted by class. Freshmen may not say the word Pisshead, a nickname for sophomores.[44] Juniors are known as "Serge Butts", so neither freshmen nor sophomores can say any form of either word. Juniors are also the first class to be allowed to say "Whoop!" Seniors, known as "Zips" for the black and gold braid on their garrison caps, which resembles a zipper, have reserved the word elephant and all forms of the words "death," "dying," "shoot," or "reload" in reference to the traditions surrounding Elephant Walk.[38] However, saying the phrases "pass away," "decease," "fire," "load again," etc., are all acceptable substitutes. Students caught "pulling out", or saying words that are reserved for other classes, are forced to "push."[38][111] Traditionally, this means the students must do a "class set" of pushups, one for each year of their class. The Class of 1945 did only 45 pushups and an extra pushup has been added for each subsequent year; the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2012 now does 112.[111] Pulling out privileges of the class directly above is considered "Good Bull", but pulling out two classes or more is "Bad Bull."[38] Members of the Corps of Cadets generally take privileged words more seriously than non-reg students.[78] See also

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